Following last Thursday’s court hearing in Barber County District Court, Medicine Lodge resident Liz Edwards closed out one chapter of her life. “Done and over with this” was her comment in a Facebook post following the verdict for Nashville-area resident Wade Dirks, who hit Liz at 50 to 55 mph on Isabel Road northeast of Medicine Lodge last April.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013, and he received a shout of encouragement from the mother-in-law of a man who was shot and killed while being...

Researchers say they have collected promising weather data by flying instrument-laden drones into big Western and Midwestern storms. Now, they want to expand the project in hopes of learning more about how tornadoes form.